Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.

Arthur C. Clarke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: December 16, 1917 - March 19, 2008

Topics

LifeBestDaySpaceHideOne Day

I'm from all over the Northeast.

Jim Coleman

OverNortheast

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

Andrew O'Hagan

GoodPeopleNationalismDependMyths

The star S0-2 orbits around Sgr A* every 16 years and will go through its closest approach in 2018. That's an opportunity to test Einstein's General Relativity theory through very precise measurements of this star's short period orbit.

Andrea M. Ghez

OpportunityShortGoTestWillStar

We have a responsibility as elected officials to do good public policy in the best interest of all the people.

Maxine Waters

GoodResponsibilityBestPeople

When we're awake, cortisol can fragment memories - one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very fragmentation allows creative recombinations of ideas.

Jeffrey Kluger

MemoriesCreativeIdeasNightCrime

In this country, we force millions of people - who are largely black and brown - into a permanent second-class status simply because they once committed a crime.

Michelle Alexander

PeopleBlackCountryCrimePermanent

No one has ever seen God. So, for me, it is acceptable that if you don't understand a thing, just call it God.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

GodMeYouUnderstandCallSeen

If one wants to go on living, one must evolve. Before, when we composed, we would start by a series of music themes. Once created, we would hire writers and lyricists to make up the text and the story line. I was the first to do this backwards with 'Man of La Mancha.'

Mitch Leigh

MusicManStartStoryGoLiving

That made me feel very disturbed, because it never seemed to be about how much hard work was involved. Ever. It was about... 'hazel eyes'. It does help if you can brush that stuff off.

Julia Ormond

WorkHard WorkEyesMeHelpYou

As a black man, sometimes you can't tell if what you're seeing has underlying bigotry, or it's a normal conversation and you're being paranoid. That dynamic in itself is unsettling. I admit sometimes I see race and racism when its not there.

Jordan Peele

ManRacismBlackYouSeeingAdmit

Ladies be seated, a laugh doesn't cost you a dime.

Johnny Olson

LaughYouCostDimeLadiesSeated

I went to a Gestalt therapist and said that I want to be able to at least tell my muscles that aren't involved that they don't have to go into spasms too.

Dick York

GoSaidWantTellInvolvedMuscles

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